Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 747 661 735
Rank change year-on-year -86 +74 -62
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 65 11 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.022% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.071% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35 8 7
10th Percentile £54,750 £61,000 -
25th Percentile £63,125 £64,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,125 £172,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,500 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,542 15,465 23,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.46% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,270 10,400 14,081
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,269 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 12 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -99 49 £72,500 -42.57% 79
Work from Home -20 32 £65,500 -60.30% 43
UK excluding London -114 30 £70,000 +7.69% 30
London -43 29 £95,000 -42.42% 55
North West - 11 £72,500 - 7
North of England - 11 £72,500 - 15
Wales -60 10 £70,000 - 1
South East -46 4 £57,500 -8.00% 3
South West -69 4 £67,500 -22.86%
East of England - 1 £72,500 -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (95.38%) GCP
2 25 (38.46%) AWS
3 21 (32.31%) Azure
3 21 (32.31%) SaaS
4 19 (29.23%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (29.23%) Google Compute Engine
5 18 (27.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 9 (13.85%) GitHub
7 9 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (12.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (12.31%) Google Workspace
9 5 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.08%) Cloud Run
10 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.08%) Vertex AI
11 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.08%) BGP
1 15 (23.08%) TCP/IP
1 15 (23.08%) VPN
2 13 (20.00%) Firewall
3 10 (15.38%) Network Security
4 8 (12.31%) VLAN
5 5 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.15%) MySQL
4 3 (4.62%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.08%) Redis
6 1 (1.54%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) TeamCity
2 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.31%) GitLab
4 5 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (50.77%) Finance
2 15 (23.08%) Back Office
2 15 (23.08%) Financial Institution
3 14 (21.54%) Banking
3 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
4 13 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (12.31%) Law
5 8 (12.31%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Senior
2 21 (32.31%) GCP Engineer
3 20 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (26.15%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (20.00%) Architect
5 13 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Senior DevOps
6 12 (18.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 11 (16.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (15.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 10 (15.38%) Security Engineer
9 8 (12.31%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (9.23%) GCP Architect
11 5 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 4 (6.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (6.15%) Senior Security Engineer
13 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (80.00%) Terraform
2 10 (15.38%) RESTful
3 8 (12.31%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.62%) REST
5 2 (3.08%) .NET
5 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.08%) Kafka
6 1 (1.54%) eBPF
6 1 (1.54%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.54%) LangChain
6 1 (1.54%) Loki
6 1 (1.54%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.54%) Spring
6 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (58.46%) Cloud Native
2 17 (26.15%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (23.08%) Blog
4 12 (18.46%) Security Posture
5 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (10.77%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.54%) IoT
8 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (87.69%) CI/CD
2 42 (64.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (63.08%) DevOps
4 27 (41.54%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (38.46%) Observability
6 22 (33.85%) Fintech
7 21 (32.31%) Identity Access Management
8 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (27.69%) Containerisation
10 17 (26.15%) Cloud Security
11 15 (23.08%) Disruptive Innovation
11 15 (23.08%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 15 (23.08%) Microservices
11 15 (23.08%) SOA
12 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (16.92%) Clean Code
13 11 (16.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
13 11 (16.92%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.85%) Python
2 25 (38.46%) Go
3 21 (32.31%) Java
4 19 (29.23%) SQL
5 18 (27.69%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) PHP
7 2 (3.08%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 7 (10.77%) CCSP
1 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (10.77%) CISM
1 7 (10.77%) CISSP
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (32.31%) PCI DSS
2 18 (27.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (27.69%) SOC 2
3 7 (10.77%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (95.38%) Kubernetes
2 28 (43.08%) Grafana
3 21 (32.31%) Prometheus
4 10 (15.38%) Istio
5 8 (12.31%) Cilium
5 8 (12.31%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (6.15%) Ansible
6 4 (6.15%) Argo
7 3 (4.62%) Kustomize
7 3 (4.62%) linkerd
7 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.62%) Puppet
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.08%) Packer
8 2 (3.08%) Rancher
8 2 (3.08%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 56 (86.15%) Google
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.54%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.54%) OpenText
3 1 (1.54%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) TIBCO